Re: Embedding pod in C

I'm not very proficient in C, but AFAIK it's common to use a preprocessor.

Like this you can filter all POD out, which basically means cutting out paragraphs between lines starting with a "=". (Probably you can even delegate this to an existing Perl module)

POD-Interpreters themselves normally don't care what kind of code you weave in.

Cheers Rolf

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Re^2: Embedding pod in C by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 18, 2011 at 18:55 UTC
The C preprocessor can't be instructed to do anything of the sort. It uses lines starting with # and does a few simple things only.	[reply]
Re^3: Embedding pod in C by LanX (Saint) on May 18, 2011 at 20:03 UTC
OK. I hoped it's at least possible to define macros which translate `=POD_COMMANDS` to the start and end of multi-line comments. Cheers Rolf	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Embedding pod in C by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 18, 2011 at 20:45 UTC
No, it's quite limited. Macro identifiers follow the rules of other identifiers (letters and numbers) and the parameters are in a parenthesis list that follows. Nothing like a general `sed` or grep replacement mechanism.	[reply] [d/l]